I hunt for meat 99% of the time (no trophies down this far) but I do make a trip out west for elk every other year or so , the goal is a trouphy bull but they all eat well.
Thats an alligator and I'm sure that anybody that hunt them know how good the meat it , some folks only eat the tail but on a gator that big you can get 4 good roast and some ribs to!!
I hate it but somtimes animals need to to be killed off for their own good otherwise disease will infect the population , this has show itself to be true with whitetaile deer and the CWD thats spreading very very fast. Their are more whitailed deer in the US rightnow than at any other point in recorded history. Alligators are making a great comback also and like everything else their will have to be limits set to what can be allowed to grow in an area and what can be taken off of it.
JC , how do yall catch them , just ease up and shoot them in shallow water or catch them on limb lines and shoot them?